Talhy Stotzer is a Western Australian freelance documentary photographer currently based in Perth.

She recently exhibited “Razing Kashgar” at the Spectrum Gallery in Western Australia.

Last year she was invited to exhibit “Platform 7” at the International Orange Photography Festival in China where she also curated “Life in Bangladesh”.

In 2010, Talhy won a scholarship to attend a Magnum workshop as part of the Fotofreo Festival in Perth.

In 2009, she spent a year in China where she was accepted to take part in an international photo-journalism Master’s Program in China.


As the recipient of a grant from Arts WA in 2005, Talhy has documented daily life in the Vezo fishing village of Andrevo in Madagascar.The project culminated in a solo exhibition at the Fremantle Arts Centre in Perth and raised money for the construction of a medical centre in the village.


She has also exhibited in numerous group shows at the Perth Centre of Photography and Hudsons Gallery in Western Australia. Additionally she has had stories published in several newspapers, including The West Australian and Japan’s Asahi Newspapers.

In 2007, Talhy also worked as a full-time journalist and photographer for a weekly newspaper and bi-monthly lifestyle magazine in Broome (North-western Australia).

She is currently completing a postgraduate degree in documentary photography at Edith Cowan University and is the picture editor for Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies.